Amos 9:4
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4 (A)And if they go into captivity before their enemies,
there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them;
(B)and I will fix my eyes upon them
for evil and not for good.”
Jeremiah 44:11
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11 “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: (A)Behold, I will set my face against you for harm, to cut off all Judah.
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Jeremiah 21:10
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10 For (A)I have set my face against this city for harm and (B)not for good, declares the Lord: (C)it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.’
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Leviticus 26:33
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33 And (A)I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
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Ezekiel 5:12
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12 (A)A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; (B)a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; (C)and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.
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Leviticus 17:10
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Laws Against Eating Blood
10 “If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them (A)eats any blood, I will (B)set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.
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Zechariah 13:8-9
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8 In the whole land, declares the Lord,
two thirds shall be cut off and perish,
(A)and one third shall be left alive.
9 And (B)I will put this third into the fire,
and refine them as one refines silver,
and test them as gold is tested.
(C)They will call upon my name,
and (D)I will answer them.
(E)I will say, ‘They are my people’;
and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”
Ezekiel 5:2
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2 (A)A third part you shall burn in the fire (B)in the midst of the city, (C)when the days of the siege are completed. And a third part you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city. (D)And a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and (E)I will unsheathe the sword after them.
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Jeremiah 39:16
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16 “Go, and say to (A)Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: (B)Behold, I will fulfill my words against this city for harm and (C)not for good, and they shall be accomplished before you on that day.
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Jeremiah 24:6
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6 (A)I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. (B)I will build them up, and not tear them down; (C)I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
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Psalm 34:15-16
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15 (A)The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous
(B)and his ears toward their cry.
16 (C)The face of the Lord is against those who do evil,
to (D)cut off the memory of them from the earth.
2 Chronicles 16:9
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9 (A)For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those (B)whose heart is blameless[a] toward him. (C)You have done foolishly in this, for from now on (D)you will have wars.”
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Deuteronomy 28:63-65
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63 And as the Lord (A)took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will (B)take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
64 “And the Lord (C)will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and (D)there you shall serve other gods (E)of wood and stone, (F)which neither you nor your fathers have known. 65 And (G)among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but (H)the Lord will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and (I)a languishing soul.
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Leviticus 26:36-39
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36 And as for those of you who are left, (A)I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The (B)sound of a (C)driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues. 37 They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And (D)you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 38 And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39 And those of you who are left shall (E)rot away in your enemies' lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.
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